AI-Powered Scary Story YouTube Channels: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you looking for a unique way to generate income on YouTube? Consider creating a scary story channel. With the help of AI, you can produce engaging content without being on camera. This guide provides a step-by-step tutorial to help you get started. From generating scary story ideas to using AI voiceovers and stock footage, you'll learn the necessary skills to create a successful channel.

Crafting Compelling Narratives: Generating Scary Story Ideas Using AI

The first step is to come up with engaging stories. Instead of traditional brainstorming, why not use AI to kickstart the process?

ChatGPT can generate scary story titles around a specific theme, providing a foundation for your content. By giving ChatGPT prompts, you’re able to be more creative with your Channel.

To get started, use the following Prompt:

Give me 5 titles for scary stories around the theme of (theme eg. Forest, zombies, cabin).

For example, let’s ask ChatGPT to generate scary stories that involve the forest.

Here are 5 titles ChatGPT gave me:

1. Whispers in the Woods: A Forest's Haunting
2. The Lost Souls of Ravenwood Forest
3. The Curse of the Eerie Evergreen
4. Into the Shadows: A Forest of Fear
5. The Forbidden Grove: Where Trees Have Eyes

If you don't like these options, simply ask it for more by saying, "Give me 5 more."

This process offers a creative way to explore different themes. Themes add creative input to create different options.

Bringing Your Stories to Life: Generating the Story with AI

Once you have the title you'd like to develop, use AI to generate the story for you. This is where you can use a prompt that is structured and comprehensive

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Generate me a scary story using (insert number&name), with a read time speaking at a (pace: fast, moderate, slow)pace that is (insert length of video), the story should (brief description if flow e.g. be suspenseful and end in a plot twist), use (language type: casual, sophisticated, friendly) language

This prompt helps ChatGPT know a variety of variables, that include

• The title of the story
• The name of the story
• The read time
• The pace
• The brief description
• The type of language

I chose the Second title, "The Lost Souls of Ravenwood Forest". Here's the prompt I'm asking ChatGPT:

Generate me a scary story using #2 "The Lost Souls of Ravenwood Forest", with a read time speaking at a fast pace that is 2 minutes long, the story should be suspenseful and have a bonechilling plot twist at the end that will make the listeners skin crawl, include jumpscares, use sophisticated language

If you don’t like the story, here are some tips :

• Regenerate and make it more
• Regenerate and Change
• Regenerate and Add In

Use this process so that the story has input from your creative voice.

Giving Voice to the Unseen: Creating Voiceovers with AI

To create a scary story YouTube video, you need a voice. Here are 3 different ways you can generate voiceovers for your video

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• Eleven Labs
• InVideo
• Your own voice

Eleven Labs

Eleven Labs is an AI platform that offers the ability to clone realistic and compelling voices for narrating your story.

To use Eleven Labs:

1. Click Speech Synthesis
2. Input your story into the text box.
3. Make sure you edit out any paragraphs so that it's in a continuous text, to avoid pausing.
4. Choose a voice.
5. Edit the settings.
6. Click Generate.
7. Click Download to download the voiceover.

InVideo

InVideo also offers the capability to create an automated voiceover. Simply input text into the automated text to speech box and edit the type and voice, then generate voiceover.

Your Own Voice

If you’d rather record your voiceover, you can do that as well by clicking Record voiceover.

Lights, Camera, AI Action: Video Editing with InVideo

To edit your video, use InVideo, as it streamlines the process

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To get started :

1. Click Dashboard.
2. Click editor.
3. Click Landscape.

Here’s how to import your voiceover [t:00:06:15]:

1. Click Upload.
2. Click Upload Media.
3. Add your voiceover to a layer.
4. Head over to Videos to add stock footage that you can Align with your story. To find the right stock footage, use ChatGPT to analyze each Paragraph and use the elements in those paragraphs to generate a high-quality video.
5. After generating high quality images, put your mouse in between media and the next media to keep the black screen from happening.
6. If there isn’t enough audio, you can click “Loop” and that’ll make the audio last longer.

Once your video is edited, export it to your computer.

Turning Views into Revenue: Monetizing Your Scary Story YouTube Channel

Once you develop a few videos, you need to know how to monetize those videos. The first thing you can do is run ads on your videos. However, make sure your channel meets YouTube's monetization requirements, such as having at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 valid watch hours in the past 12 months. Once you're eligible, you can enable monetization in your YouTube settings.

You can also explore options for channel memberships where your audience can get exclusive content and behind-the-scenes footage by paying a fee.

Another way to make money from this is by doing brand sponsorships. When your channel grows, contact a brand to see if you can promote their services for a fee.

All this can help you make revenue from your YouTube channel.

Studying Mr. Nightmare's Success

To create a successful scary story YouTube channel, look at what the popular channels are doing. Mr. Nightmare creates videos that use a deep voice over, background Music, and images that relate to the story . Analyze channels like this to get a greater sense of what you can do.

Optimizing Posting Schedule and Video Length

Here are some tips for your channel:

• Post 3 times a week
• Or, post every day
• Video length is experimented with over time, to know what works best with your audience.

Adding a Unique Twist

In order for you to stand out from the scary story YouTube channel crowd, you need to try to be unique from everybody else . Add things like

• Focus on Ghost stories
• Post super long videos
• Videos that make you chill